Chapter 102: Four Elephants and Twenty-Eight Nights

Sun Zhongyuan looked at the pen for a long time, but he didn't see any calligraphy light and shadow. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, after a long period of examination, he found that this purple-black treasure light was faintly mixed with a pale yellow light! This light was very faint, so he didn't notice it at first, and it was only after a long time of examination that he felt that something was wrong.

From the beginning to the present, the treasure light he can see is consistent with the original color of the object, how can this old pen tube of red sandalwood contain a pale yellow treasure light?

He looked at the new pen again, the sealing glue had not been moved, and the hair pen had not yet been soaked. Of course, Gongsun Han also said that after her father Gongsun Yang gave it to her, she kept it well and never used it.

However, this pale yellow treasure light shows that there is something in the red sandalwood pen tube!

Either it was the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty who built something into it when they were processing the pen tube! Or it was something hidden by later generations!

Sun Zhong originally pulled the pen with all his might, and it was quite reliable. Then he twisted the gold ring at the top of the pen, but he didn't twist it.

Similarly, the gold cap at the end of the brush is also very strong, and the general force is unscrewed and does not move.

Sun Zhongyuan thought about it, if he wanted to hide something, he would definitely not open it from the golden hat, because the golden hat was "original". Since it has been replaced with a new pen, it is more reasonable to open it from the gold ring.

And if it is something that was added in the processing of the Ming Dynasty a long time ago, then it is no different from which end to open it now.

After making up his mind, Sun Zhongyuan ran the "internal force", condensed it between his fingers, and began to twist the gold ring.

I only heard a rustling sound, and the golden ring moved!

Continued to rotate, and even the gold ring and pen were unscrewed together!

Originally, according to the general pen-making process, the gold ring should be inlaid in wood, but now, there is a screw-like structure inside, and glue is also used, so it is very reliable!

If Sun Zhongyuan hadn't been able to run the "internal force", the focus point would be so narrow that it would have been impossible to unscrew it at all!

However, since it is so transformed, this also shows that the things in this should have been hidden later.

Sun Zhongyuan put down the pen, looked at the barrel of the pen, and found that there was a red sandalwood plug inside. This plug is obviously not the old material of the Ming Dynasty.

This plug fits more closely with the pen barrel, but since the plug was plugged later, it is not afraid of destruction, Sun Zhongyuan used the paper clip configured on the note in the hotel room and slowly pulled it out.

As a result, there was literally a roll stuffed in the barrel!

When I pulled it out, it was actually a rolled up suede!

This suede is round, open, and only about 20 centimeters in diameter, very light and soft, and at the same time very tough.

Spreading this suede flat, Sun Zhongyuan found that there were countless small holes in this suede!

The table top is dark brown, the suede is tiled, and the small holes "become" into small dots.

Of course, this "innumerable" is intuitive, not really innumerable. Roughly counted, there should be about two hundred such small dots.

Sun Zhongyuan had already understood at this time that these small dots were a simple diagram of the four elephants and twenty-eight nights!

The 28 constellations are the 28 star regions divided by the ancients in order to observe the movement of the sun, moon, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Since it is a star district, each of them contains a number of constellations as defined today.

The small hole in the top is a "sketch", which only outlines the general outline of each of the twenty-eight nights.

These 28 Nakshatras are mainly located in the ecliptic region, in fact, the size and span of each Nakshatra are not uniform, but the ancients divided the 28 Nakshatras into four star regions: Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu. Each night, combined with the five elements and animals, has a name.

Oriental Qinglong Seven Houses: Jiaomu Jiao, Kang Jin Dragon, Di Tu Raccoon, Fang Ri Rabbit, Heart Moon Fox, Tailed Fire Tiger, Kei Water Leopard.

Southern Vermilion Bird Seven Nights: Jingmu Rhino, Ghost Golden Sheep, Liutu Deer, Xingri Horse, Zhang Yuelu, Winged Fire Snake, and Water Worm.

Western White Tiger Seven Nights: Kui Wood Wolf, Lou Jin Dog, Stomach Pheasant, Pleiades Pheasant, Bi Yue Wu, Fire Monkey, Ginseng Ape.

Northern Xuanwu Seven Nights: Doumu Hedgehog, Ox Taurus, Female Earth Bat, Void Sun Mouse, Weiyue Swallow, Room Fire Pig, Wall Water Pig.

"This is a star map, or a celestial map!" Sun Zhongyuan muttered to himself as he lit a cigarette.

This is a cooked suede with very good craftsmanship and a smooth finish. However, the age of this thing is not easy to verify, although there is Baoguang to help, but Baoguang is very dim and does not play much of an auxiliary role. Sun Zhongyuan looked at it carefully, and could only roughly conclude that it was not something less than a hundred years old.

What is the use of using the method of punching holes to show the star map of the four elephants and the twenty-eight Nakshatras?

Sun Zhongyuan couldn't figure it out for a while.

You must know that the orientation and composition of the four elephants and the twenty-eight houses are easy to find information, and it is not difficult for his grandson Zhongyuan to make such a simple map of the four elephants and twenty-eight houses according to the data.

This suede, with a new rosewood plug stuffed into it, was not put in by people in the Ming Dynasty, so, was it put in by Gongsun Yang?

If Gongsun Yang put it in, why did he put it? And he left his daughter such a pen, but he didn't say that there was something in it!

Sun Zhongyuan checked it repeatedly, and the arrangement of the twenty-eight houses was consistent with the usual direction. Although the specific directions and distances of some of the stars seem a bit strange, manual mapping is inevitable.

In the end, Sun Zhongyuan's gaze fell on the center of this suede!

It's the only place that's special.

If it is a general four-elephant twenty-eight nakshatra chart, there is either nothing in the center, or it should be the Ziwei North Star and the Big Dipper!

However, in the center of this suede, there are only five small holes!

Of the five small holes, three are concentrated and the other two are outward. If it's tighter, it's like it's going to shrink into a ball, and if it's looser, it's like a flag.

What does that mean?

If it were a five-star, it would not be possible to be in this position.

The five small holes in the center of this suede, although they are located in the center, but placed on the entire "star map", there is a feeling of being "oppressed", as if they have been "suppressed" by the four elephants and twenty-eight houses.

At the same time, although the position of these five small holes is fixed, they seem to move from different angles. However, no matter how you "move", it seems that you are in confinement!

Sun Zhongyuan thought a little sadly, although most of them were intuitive, but then he was a little dizzy. He had to put the suede down for the time being.

He picked up the barrel of the pen and put the gold ring and pen on first, although the glue was destroyed, but it could still be screwed on, and there was no feeling of loosening.

Putting the red sandalwood pen back in the box, Sun Zhongyuan lit another cigarette, opened the window, and looked at the starry sky in the sky, but unfortunately, there was haze in Yanjing today, and there were not a few stars in sight.